Production progress - 2nd cut music video

This is a copy of our second cut. However this isn't the exact second cut as we had yet more problems to do with editing and lost our proper second cut. This is more like a 1.5 cut of our production as it has some of the additions and changes made but is missing some visual effects shots.

Production progress - 2nd cut feedback

Once we has shown our 2nd cut of our music video, we received a 2nd sheet from the teacher with feedback of how we did and what we could do to improve

Here is the feedback:

- Stabilizing the first bed shot, removing the jerk on the zooming out phase.

- Walking down the stair scene - re shoot scene getting in three different shots including close ups of the framed pictures.

- Include lip syncing or show someone playing the guitar. We came up with the idea if a busker playing the guitar in the street, but without any strings on his instrument.

- The freeze frame of the character being run over could replace the looking through the window scene, working well with the sound of the car crash.

- Instead of using the car crash incident from the television show Skins, we could film our own and have it being played on the television.

- We found a potential of applying the heartbeat monitor lines onto the blank piece of paper, making the scene more interesting and weird.

- Shorten screaming, chiaroscuro scenes as they lose their effect as we've played them too long.

- Needing to change the car park setting as it means there are people around, getting the total opposite effect and meaning we are going for.

- Add a scene of the driver getting out of the car earlier in the production, building a story for the viewer.

- Applying a red sky effect to the walking across the Mead's scene. The red sky will darken as he gets closer to the building, walking towards death or danger?

- Remove the laying on the ground scene inside the house from the rewind sequence as it doesn't relate to the story what so ever.

Ancillary progress - 19th Jan

For the last 2-3 weeks, we have no begun working on our ancillary tasks. After a small discussion, we all decided on doing a website homepage for the band and a digi pack for the bands cd. We chose the website as it is a good way to get creative for promoting our made up band and I have recently been learning about website construction in my ICT studies. We went with digi pack also as it is a chance to design a sort of album cover and make a song list.

Today, I carried out some website research. I did this by going through my iPod and picking out bands to look at on the internet. I then looked up their official sites and put a print screen of their homepages onto a powerpoint. In total, I researched around 10-12 band sites. Once I had them in a power point, I analysed and annotated each the homepages picking out unique and interesting features of the site to possibly take inspiration from at a later date.

I got some interteresting ideas from carrying out this research such as:

- simple backgrounds
- links to their pages on social networks such as twitter, facebook etc
- interactive buttons
- animated logos
- buttons or backgrounds that change when the mouse is hovered over the something
- a constantly changing background
- latest news feeds

and many more.

Here is my website research powerpoint.

Website research

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Production progress

13th December

As the 15th was the date Miss wanted us to show our production to her and the class, I decided to do as much as I could with the extra visual effects we wanted for thursday. First of all, I tried out the idea of adding a heart rate monitor onto the scene with the blank piece of paper. This was tricky as the heart rate monitor was part of an actual video from youtube. I used the same technique as I would with a green screen and selected the colours I wanted to get rid of such as the blacks of the screen. After a lot of refinement, I had a transparent heart rate monitor which only showed the details from the screen. I then put this onto the scene with a piece of paper. I tried motion tracking this scene so that I could easily put the monitor on but there was no obvious point in the scene i could motion track. This is when i decided to go through the scene frame by frame and resize the monitor so that it appeared to be part of the paper. I was happy with the result however it is a tiny bit jerky. When I next have a moment I will refine this scene further.

Another scene I worked on was the sky. The sky scene was originally filmed to add in two moons but that proved to be too surreal. The new idea was to make the sky gradually turn red to show that the main characters time was almost over. I have again only done a rough version of what I hope the final scene will look like, but this is because I only had a short time in which to experiment and try out a few effects. I used a simple filter which allowed you to change the colour of the scene in a certain amount of time. The end result did look quite good, but like I said before need refining.

I also tried adding birds to the red sky scene, just to add to the surrealism. I got the birds from a website that offers free stock green screen footage and did the same as I did with the Heart Rate monitor. The effect doesn't run as smoothly as I had hoped. I will probably leave it out but I will give it one more go before the final deadline.

Production progress

12th December

This was the day Ashley wasn't in school so me and James decided to go over our production and pick out areas of improvement and discuss what could be added to push the production towards higher marks. We spent almost two hours just discussing this and going through it. Here is the list: